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Soh Kam Yung
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Exploring one universe at a time.

Interested in #Nature, #Photography, #NaturePhotography, #Science, #ScienceFiction, #Physics, #Engineering.
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wa-moths.bsky.social
A new species of native leaf cutter bee, Megachile lucifer, has been described in Western Australia. This is one of an estimated 500 currently undescribed native #bees in Australia

#ausinverts #wildoz #pollinators #nature #inverts

theconversation.com/i-discovered...
I discovered a new Australian native bee, but there are still hundreds we need to identify
The discovery of a horned native bee that pollinates a rare plant highlights how little we know about Australian pollinators.
theconversation.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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helenczerski.bsky.social
Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.
Pictures of a pink sea anemone sitting on top of a hermit crab shell.
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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franzanth.bsky.social
Art train time!

Next stops:
@delightmonster.bsky.social
@lordsovorn.bsky.social
@emilyjaneart.bsky.social
@trigonotarbida.bsky.social
two dome-shaped round beetles grazing, viewed from a low angle, illustration a pink spider with black spots like ladybug, hanging between flowers, illustration a landscape of stick-like fungi with a big slug looming in the background mantisfly, an insect that heavily resembles mantises, illustrated with ornate pattern fillings in green and gold
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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savebutterflies.bsky.social
Check out the magical metallic green scales on this Green-brindled Crescent (Allophyes oxyacanthae) ✨

This autumnal moth flies from September to November and can often be seen feeding on ivy blossom on milder nights.

📷: Samantha May
#MothMonday #TeamMoth
A brown moth with metallic green scales, resting on a yellow and orange autumn leaf
November 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
A Black-faced Bunting (Emberiza spodocephala) spotted near Pujiang Countryside Park, Shanghai, China on 2 Nov 2025. A difficult bird to approach as they quickly fly off.

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #China #Shanghai #Birds #Aves
A small bird with a dark brown head, a black patch around the eyes, and a short, stout beak. The body has brown feathers with dark streaks running from the head to the tail along the wings, back and underside.
November 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
Lovely.

"After a five-year hiatus, free guided tours to the little penguin colony at the end of the new St Kilda pier finally re-reopened this week."

#Melbourne #Australia #Penguins
St Kilda’s little penguin colony to be ‘cherished and protected’ as free public tours return at long last
A new, purpose-built 150m viewing platform is giving visitors the chance to ‘connect with nature in the city’
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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silverdory.bsky.social
Marsh sun orchids (Thelymitra longiloba) on the edge of Croajingolong National Park, East Gippsland, VIC. This is the first time I've seen this species - although I have seen a single plant of the similar Thelymitra improcera just nearby in the past. #orchids #inthefield #ozplants
Marsh sun orchids (Thelymitra longiloba) on the edge of Croajingolong National Park, East Gippsland, VIC
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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lycomorpha.bsky.social
A pleasingly round and stripey snail.

The variations in background colour and stripes on its shell have been studied by geneticists and ecologists.

We salute your contributions to science, little snail pal!

#SciArt
Colour pencil drawing of a brown-lipped snail, Cepea nemoralis, and four empty shells demonstrating variations in the thickness of brown stripes on its yellow shell. The snail's shell is pleasingly rounded, and its body is a glistening slimey grey wedge-shape with little bumps all over. It has 2 long thin eyestalks, and 2 shorter ones. Adorable. A watermark in the corner reads @lycomorpha - lycomorpha.etsy.com.
November 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
Took me a while, but I found my endemic Hawaiian tree snail images. :) These lil' ones approx 5mm long, species unknown. 🐙📷🌿 #Invertebrates
A pair of tiny tiny snails crawling along a leaf, which looks like a huge furrowed field at this scale A very tiny snail crawling along a leaf. It has long eyestalks and a brown shell
November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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dianamonkey.bsky.social
snailposting!

(a snail I met in Borneo)
November 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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ichnologist.bsky.social
One of my favorite marine snails on the Georgia coast, the knobbed whelk (Busycon carica), a bivalve-killing predator that lives in sandy shallow-marine environments, but is occasionally seen buried (by its burrowing) in intertidal zones. 🧪🌊🐌
Very large and very much alive knobbed whelk, a marine snail with a bright orange lip to its shell framing its extruded fleshy foot, which has its brown oval "trapdoor" operculum attached to it. A person's hand is holding it above a gray sandy beach surface, where it had buried itself during low tide.
November 9, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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jencross.bsky.social
We’re snailposting, post your snails.

This particular snail with its long tail caused a stir in the snail community on iNat a few years ago.
Family Proserpinellidae
Bellavista Cloud Forest Reserve, Ecuador
A golden colored snail with a long tail and eye spots at the base of the antennae. It is on a damp leaf.
November 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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tjalamont.bsky.social
Ms. Mantis on my front porch just now. This time of year the adult females sometimes wander to find new spots to lay their egg cases - I relocated her to a flowering shrub where she can fatten up on bees and stay hidden from birds. She’s a native species here (Stagmomantis limbata). 🐙🌿 #Bugsky
A photo of a green praying mantis standing on a sunlit brick porch. A car wheel is visible in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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mesofauna.bsky.social
I haven’t been posting on here very much recently, but thought I’d post this photo of a Dicyrtoma fusca springtail. What a beauty…
November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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hawaiianimages.bsky.social
OK, I already posted tiny terrestrial snails, let's do a GIANT AQUATIC SNAIL. This is one of the largest marine snails in the world, a Horned helmet shell (C. cornuta). Helmet is right, that shell is THICK. #Snailposting #Invertebrates 🌿📷🐙
A gigantic Horned helmet snail. Its shell is covered by knobby extrusions and adhering sand and algae, its mostly brown but showing some green at the edge of the shell and you can just make out the yellow of the actual animal thru the siphon hole at lower foreground
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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wa-moths.bsky.social
One of the Bobtails or Western Shinglebacks (Tiliqua rugosa rugosa) that lives in our Perth Hills garden showing off the blue tongue these skinks are known for

#reptiles #ausreptiles #wildoz #inaturalist #nature
Picture of a stout skink with a triangular head and short stumpy tail. The mouth is open showing a blue tongue in a pink mouth. The lizard is brown and cream in colour
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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smbccomics.bsky.social
This is more easily executable with a three-wish genie, but it's good to be prepared for all circumstances.

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fish-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
5-panel SMBC comic update where a man catches a wish-granting talking fish. The fish tells him : "Set me free and you may have anything. But whatever you get, I will instantly give it to your neighbor, twice." The man asks for a magic box that gives him all his neighbor's money one second after he receives any money. The final panel shows the man lounging in a pile of gold saying "infinite money gliiiiitch!" to the dismay of the magic fish, that says that this is why they hate logicians.
November 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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greenwingstours.bsky.social
Bolivia keeps delivering beautiful butterflies for our group. Here's another phone pic just sent back of a lovely Firetip.

One for #SkipperSaturday
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
My record shots of the Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) at Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on 9 Nov 2025. Happy to glimpse a wild bird that has not been seen in Singapore for over a century. 🙂

On iNaturalist [ www.inaturalist.org/observations... ].

#iNaturalist #Singapore #Birds #Aves
A large hornbill with a black body and white undersides. It has a long white bill and a red casque at the top of the head. It is perched on a branch deep in the forest. Another view of the hornbill from the same location.
November 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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ajcann.bsky.social
The very beautiful and always very welcome Aphanus rolandri.

#Bugs #Hemiptera #VC55 #Lygaeidae #macrophotography #macro #OMSystem
Aphanus rolandri
November 8, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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caseinmicelles.bsky.social
#snailposting

Alt text: A wee little fellow with a two-toned gold and brown shell chills on a dried length of native golden rod.
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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crawlieswithcri.bsky.social
All the SQUEE!

Bebe Pacific Sideband (Monadenia fidelis) - prettiest snails ever - even in miniature.

Shell not even 1cm yet - adults average 29cm! It will take this bitty 2 full years to get there - but they can live up to 10 years, so no hurry!

#becurious #Molluscs
macro photo of a very young snail. their shell is brown with black and brick red speckles (which will turn to bands as they age) their body is mauve with brick red speckles and their tentacles (AKA "eye stalks") are black. they are in profile facing right.
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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mikemelton.bsky.social
One of my favorite things about the tropical dry forests of Guanacaste are the winter visiting Scissor-tailed Flycatchers. They're later than a lot of other N American migrants, but they're starting to show up in good numbers now. When it gets too wet in Bijagua, I just head down to the sun. #birds
Slim bird with a very long tail, gray head, white breast, and orange sides perched on a weathered tree stump against a soft green background.
November 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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apod.shinyakato.dev
🔭 Road to the Galactic Centre

Image Credit & Copyright: Michael Abramyan

star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
The picture shows the a composite image of Monument Valley, Utah, USA in the foreground, and the plane of the Milky-Way Galaxy including the Galactic Centre in the background. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
November 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
sohkamyung.bsky.social
""The fact that Chinese nationals are the masterminds behind many of these operations has been deeply damaging to China's image on the international stage," Ivan Franceschini, co-author of Scam: Inside Southeast Asia's Cybercrime Compounds, tells the BBC."
Thousands of Chinese lured abroad and forced to be scammers - now Beijing is cracking down
Myanmar's scam clans are being brought to justice in the full glare of Chinese state TV.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM